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Hi Hall descendants
I am descended from another line of the Hall family. I live in Sydney, Australia, and have traced back to William Hall, in England, born about 1770, and have information on the line to Thomas Henry.

Margaret

Hi Dave
We're still digging. It's possible that the William's could not be the same ones...William had a son William who was a woolstapler...was in London from the 1830's

The Thomas was not a son..William's son Thomas was not born until 1824...he had no Thomas by his first marriage so if they're related he could only be a brother or father.

We are currently trying to find where William came from...checking Stockport where his original partner James Daniel came from.

I have written to the archives at Sheepscar..last time we were there they mentioned that they have business records.

We'll keep digging and hopefully get a breakthrough....thanks again for all your help

Hi Dave
These Halls are getting more complicated. School holidays are on here and I have been busy doing my nanna duties. Ken went to the Genealogical Society yesterday and came up with these results:
Fom Leeds Intelligencer
1793 James Daniel, patent hat maker from Stockportopened a warehouse near Red Bull Inn Leeds
1794 Daniel Hall & co patent hat warehouse Briggate
1795 William Hall & co on the bridge (j Daniel was bankrupt in 1795)
Leeds Directory
1797 & 1798 Hall & co patent hat makwers bridge
1800 Hall & co patent hat warehouse, Briggate
1807 Hall & co patent hat warehouse Briggate (Hall William volunteer Amen Corner)
1809 Hall, William, hatter & woolstapler, Briggate
1814 1815 Hat Manufacturers: Hall, William, 91 Briggate;Woolstapler, Hall, Thomas, 91 Briggate
1817 Hall, William, hatter & woolstapler & agent to the LondonUnion Fire Office, 91 Briggate; Hall, Mary, straw hat maker, 91 Briggate
1818 1820 Commercial Directory: Woolstapler,Hall, William, 91 Briggate; Hatters:Hall, William, 91 Briggate
1820 Baines  Woolstapler, Hall William, Queens Court, Call Lane (printer:Wm Headley, 91 Briggate) was woolstapler in Lands Lane in 1820

General & Commercial Directory of Leeds, 1826; Hall, Wm, woolstapler, 5 Queens Court, Call Lane: h..1 Blundell Place Sunny Bank, St James street

This all poses more questions...was Thomas the father or a brother. Are all the Williams the same person or is William, the son also involved. William, the father died in Leeds in 1828

We have friends in Oxford who lament on your weather. water restrictions etc. Our summer was pretty poor so it's nice to get a sunny winter's day once in a while.

I have no idea on William's father's name, nor where he was born...I could guess William as most of the children in the families called their fist son William...maybe that's too much of an assumption, but worth a try. He seemed to be fairly entrenched in Leeds in the hat business from a fairly young age...however I have been wrong before!

An example...William Milner was Thomas's father in law...not George..an interesting coincidence though.
Good night..

Hi Dave...It is now midnight in Sydney. One of William's sons had the name  James Asbridge Hall who was a brother of my gg grandfather Matthew, a surgeon in Wortley. Two of Matthew's children also had the name Asbridge as a second name, so we followed through and found William Asbridge of Cockermouth with a daughter Isabella. We have the marriage bond of William Hall, 27 to Isabella Asbridge, 21 in Cockermouth in 1799.
My gg grandfather Matthew married Mary Ann Abbey in St Peter's Leeds and their children were christened there.
This family has proved a challenge, as we know Matthew's death and have his will but have never been able to find a burial...spent a week in Leeds Library several years ago and also archives at Sheepscar with no success...found his house "Greenhill House" in Wortley and wandered through the cemetery across the road..still no success. I guess one day we'll find the missing burial and baptisms....it's a challenge!!